You know, if I was half the partisan that whomod thinks I am, I should be cheering the fact that "Anderson Cooper rips, rips, rips Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) ". Instead I find it really upsetting that Cooper would act like that.
The woman thanked someone for help. Maybe there could, or should, have been more help. I dunno. But common human decency says you thank people for what they do to help.